Description
“Moravian Women’s Memoirs is made up of the autobiographical writings of thirty of the women who lived in the major North American Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at varying points in the eighteenth century. What follows are their memoirs, fascinating documents that contain insights into the lives of the women and men who lived in the Moravian communities in North America. . . . These Moravian women’s memoirs reveal the intersection of the private and the public spheres of their lives. They are records of their spiritual paths in a world that in most cases challenged the bounds of knowledge inherited from their parents.”—from the Preface
Table of Contents
Memoirs of the Single Sisters
The Single Sisters: An Introduction
Anna Rosina Anders (1727-1803)
Maria Barbara Horn (1729-1797)
Eva Lanius (1743-1801)
Margareth Barbara Seidner (1714-1796)
Benigna Zahm (1748-1804)
Memoirs of the Married Sisters
The Married Sisters: An Introduction
Martha Büminger (1723-1773)
Margaretha Edmonds (1721-1773)
Johanette Maria Ettwein (1725-1773)
Sarah Grube (1727-1793)
Anna Hasse (1743-1786)
Margarethe Jungmann (1721-1793)
Marie Elizabeth Kunz (1732-1769)
Anna Marie Worbass (1722-1795)
Memoirs of the Widowed Sisters
The Widowed Sisters: An Introduction
Anna Boehler (1740-1809)
Magdalene Beulah Brockden (1731-1820)
Catharine Brownfield (1716-1798)
Christiana Dorothea Detmers (1730-1814)
Anna Barbara Fenstermacher (1709-1790)
Mariana Höht (1737-1772)
Juliana Horsfield (1737-1809)
Martha Hussey (1719-1790)
Barbara Jag (1747-1816)
Catharina Krause (1724-1807)
Susanna Nixdorf (1708-1800)
Johanna Christiana Parsons (1699-1773)
Susanne Luise Partsch (1722-1795) / 111
Maria Elisabeth Reitzenbach ( 1738-1809)
Maria Agnes Rothe (1735-1805)
Anna Johanna Seidel (1726-1788)
Rosina Stoll (1727-1811)
About the Author
Katherine M. Faull is associate professor of German at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She is the editor of Anthropology and the German Enlightenment: Perspectives on Humanity.
Related Interest
May 1997